India, Aug. 7 -- Police in Tokyo, Japan have arrested a woman for repeatedly ordering large quantities of merchandise from a popular online store and then cancelling the orders. The accused, named Mayu Yoshida, placed over 2,000 orders on the online store of anime company Shueisha by using fake accounts and aliases.

According to the Japanese news outlet Nippon TV News 24, the 32-year-old woman used over 230 fake accounts to place the orders. Between 2024 and 2025, she ordered Naruto and One Piece merchandise worth between approximately 4.3 billion yen ($2.7 million USD or Rs.258 crore INR approximately).

Yoshida cancelled the orders after they were shipped and never paid for them.

According to a report by Sankei Shimbun, the orders wer...